It is not only an engaging but a super-useful book. I already started practicing 2 of the exercises that I've read about, and they are amazing! This book will teach you everything you need to become a great storyteller. One of the best books I've read in a while.

3.5⭐️ this was extremely informative and helpful. The author narrated the audiobook I listened to and although he did a fantastic job (no wonder he’s a storyteller), I would have preferred a physical format to take notes and highlight. This was completely my bad for picking audio format for a non-fiction, yet it did take away from my absorption of knowledge (thus not full 4 stars). I’ll definitely take some things with me and pick up a physical copy if I find it second hand. For those looking to improve their storytelling capabilities in any way shape or form, this is a to-the-point practical and sometimes humourously harsh approach to improving your skills. If you want to be more engaging as a person, partner, colleague or parent - this book has it all. I did think he went a bit overboard on the storytime breaks and overexplained some parts while I would have liked more details elsewhere.

Excellent book to understand storytelling and tell stories Loved reading this book. Matthew tells you what storytelling is by telling many of his stories. Lot of people think stories are not for them. Matthew convinces you that everyone could tell stories and gives you tools to generate your own stories. Use homework for life and come up with your own stories for any situation.

This was such a powerful book and will inform my content creation for sure, particularly on YouTube. I listened to the audiobook and may well go through the Kindle version to highlight and synthesise.

The moment I was done listening to Matthew Dicks narrate Storyworthy, I instantly wanted to purchase the eBook version of the book too. This is one of those few books that are best read as both audio and text version. The audio brings out Matthew’s expertise as a storyteller — you realize how powerful the medium of storytelling is. However, as I had recently complained, it doesn’t give me enough chance to make notes from. Or to go back to those key sections and read them again. I am not a storyteller by profession. I don’t get on a stage to narrate a story from my life to a group of strangers. Rather, I can’t even do that if I wanted to — the introvert in me shudders even thinking about it. But I do like to tell stories to the people I am comfortable with. To my family, my friends, my colleagues. And what Matthew attempts to narrate in this book is how to do that better. But it’s not the “how to tell better stories” part that I found helpful. It is how to find those story-worthy moments from your life that had me excited. Matthew has a very natural, effortless way of conveying the methodical ways to identify, prepare and tell your stories easily. You would expect that, he is a teacher first, after all. At the same time, he is also a writer and a renowned storyteller, though. So, listening to him tell his stories and use them as a tool to teach the process behind was fascinating. He has mastered the art over his many shows, and he lays out everything he has learnt through his experience for his readers to benefit from. He holds back nothing. I have made so many notes, and I will make a many more when I read this book a second time. One thing, I have got homework for life now. And I don’t complain. You should read this book even if, like me, you have no intention ever to tell your stories to strangers. Because, as Matthew says, there come moments in our life when we do tell our stories. So, instead of being terrible at it, we can attempt to do slightly better. Maybe we will not bore a few people the next time we ramble along in front of them. A must-read for me.

If you like storytelling, you must read this book, stop reading this review here, and do it. If on the other hand, you do not know anything about storytelling, there is no better way to begin in the world that with this volume but I have to point out one thing, it can become a little annoying if you are not passionate about storytelling (or you did not become passionate while reading). However, it is a book that I would recommend everyone to read. It has a lot of information that goes beyond knowing how to tell stories and even, curiously, has a great philosophical and face-to-face perspective.